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St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31
LUNCHEON.
BeefScallop.
Cheese Fingers.
Fried Potatoes.
Brown Bread and Butter.
Doughnuts.

BEEF ScALLoP.-Two cups of cold under
done roast beef, one cup of raw potatoes, cut
into dice, two beaten eggs, mustard, pepper,
salt and a teaspoonful finely minced onion.
one cupful of gravy or stock. Peel and cut
the potatoes, lay them in cold water for half
an hour, drain, cover them with boiling
sailed water and stew gently ten minutes;
drain off the water, add the gravy and the
beef chopped fine, cook slowly for ten
minutes, turn into bowl. beat in the eggs:
the onion, salt, pepper and mustard, put into
a creased bakedish strew crumbs on top,
bake covered half an hour, then brown.
CHEESE FINGERs.--This is a good way to
use up scraps of pastry left over from bak-
ing pies. Cut them into strips as long as
your middle finger and twice as wide; strew
with dry, grated cheese, a little salt and just
a pinch of cayenne; double them length.
wise; pinch the edges together along their
length; sprinkle more cheese upon them
and bake quickly; pile within napkin on
hot dish and serve at once.
DoUeHNUrs.-Two cups of milk, one cup of
sugar, one quart of -four, three eggs one tea
spoonful of salt, one-half of yeast cake, one
full tablespoonful of butter, half teaspoonful
mixed cinnamon and mace; bit of soda in
the milk. Heat the milk and stir in the SUI
gar and butter; while it is cooling sift the
salt twice in the -four and dissolve the yeast
cake in a little warm water. Mix all while
the milk is blood warm and let the dough
rise till morning. Then work in the
whipped eggs; knead the soft dough one
minute and set for the second rising; it
should be very light before you roll it out
into sheet and cut into shapes; after cut
ting them let them stand half an hour and
fry in plenty of hot lard in frying dough
the side down that was uppermost on the dish
from which YOU take them they rise better
thus; fish out when done with split spoon
and put into hot colander, sitting powdered
sugar over them while warm.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31
TO SHAKESPEARE.

A Memorial of the Bard to be Presented to
the Town of Stratford.
A memorial of Shakespeare is to be pre-
scented to Stratford- on-Avon by Lord Ronald
Cover, which will probably be the most i'm
portant monument erected in Shakespeare
honor. shakspeare's bust will surmount the
top of the pile, on a column about which will
be grouped bronze figures of Comedy and
Tragedy" This will all be supported by a
large marble pedestal containing inches, in
which will be placed four ife-sized bronze
figures These figures will be of characters
in Shakspeare's plays. Two of them have
already been cast and were recently ex-
hibited in London. One represents Hamlet
holding the skull. 1t is in much the same
pose as the famous Lorenzo de Medici,"
BY Michael Angelo. The other is of Lady
Macbeth walking in her sleep. '-Eschange
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31

either owns or occupies depot il the city:
mensions and appointments and central in n
served the patrons of this line But now the
growth of the upper, or more NortheraH sec,
ton of the great city, demands that iacll ile
identical with and convenient to tna Il ne,gn,
borhood shall be provided, and we observe a
compliance with that demand in the compae t
ton of beautiful station at l3otn stleet,
complete in arrangements, artlstlc IL ues n5;1i
be appreciated by those whose business or
pleasure necessitates visit to or so]ourn In
These are but few Of the many FEATURES
Of this route which commend themselves 70
the consideration of the travelling puphc, and
we are not surprised to know that inc foao
enjoys large patronage.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31
THE FAMILY KITCHEN.

RYE PoRRlDGE.-One cup Of rye meal,
three large cups of boiling water and one OF
hot milk. one teaspoonfuI OF salt. When
the sailed water reaches the boil stir Ill the
meal, cook one hour after the water III the
outer vessel begins to bubble again, add the
hoi milk and simmer five minutes before
turning out.
KIDNEY AND HAM.-Split each kidney
lengthwise and cleanse from fat and strings.
Have as many slices Of cold boiled ham, fat
and lean together, as you have pieces OF
kidney, cutting them into pieces of the same
breadth and length. String half kidneys
and bits of ham alternately on slender skew
ers, piece of ham at each end. When the
skewers are full, boil over clear fire for
eight minutes, turning often; lay the skew,
ers in row on hot dish, pepper, salt and
haste with butter and send to table.
FLANNEL CAKES without eggs).-One
quart of milk, one cup of cornmeal and
nearly three of -four, half cake of yeast,
stirred in half-cup of warm water, one
large cup of boiling water, one teaspoonful
of salt, one teaspoonful of molasses, bit OF
soda the size of pea in the milk. Scald the
meal with the boiling water, stir in the milk
and strain through colander, add -four and
yeast and let it rise until morning, beat in
salt and molasses, and when the batter is
smooth and light, bake on a griddle. They
are very nice
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31
DINNER.
Turnip Soup.
Deviled Oysters.
Braised Beef.
Spinach on Toast.
Fried Parsnips.
Mashed Potatoes.
Cup Plum Pudding.
Er1,,t ToHao
Fruit. Coffee.


TuRNIP Sour (without meat -Eight or ten
large white turnips, half an onion, one stalk
Of celery, one pint of milk, one tablespoonful
of minced parsley, one tablespoonful of -four
rolled in three tablespoonful of butter, two
quarts of water, bit of soda in milk; peel,
slice and lay the turnips in cold water for an
hour drain and put into the soup kettle with
onion, celery and parsley; add the cold water
and cook tender; rub the soup through u
colander, season and return to the fire; stir
in the buttered flour, simmer five minutes.
add the milk and pour out.
DEvILED OYsTERs.-Wipe large 'frying
size" oysters dry and lay in mixture made
bg allowing the juice of lemon to two ia
Hespoonfuls of melted butter, little salt and
apinch of cayenne. Turn the oysters over
and over in this, then in fine crumbs, and
broil on wire broiler over clear fire. Serve
hot.
BRAlsED BEEF.-Put brisket of beef in a
broad-bottomed pot and set it over the fire.
At the end of ten minutes turn it and again
in ten minutes more Repeat this once more
for each side then pour in two cups of boil
ing water, fit on close top and cook slowly
one hour before turning the meat. After
this cook an hour longer if the meat weighs
seyen or eight pounds-keeping the top on.
haste freely with the gravy and brown for
live or six minutes before dishing. Skim
and season the gravy, thicken with Drowned
flour and serve in boat
SPINACH ON ToAsT.-Pick the leaves over
carefully, rejecting the stems, wash and put
into saucepan, with a cup of water to a
half peck Of leaves. Cover and cook for
twenty minutes, drain and chop it as fine as
possible; put back over the fire and beat in
tablespoonful Of butter, teaspoonful of
sugar, salt, pepper, a dash of nutmeg and the
juice of half lemon. Whip smooth and press
hard into heated egg or custard cups to mold
it. Have ready crustless rounds of toast, but
tered well, on a heated platter. Turn out
mold of spinach on EACH and put slice of
hard-boiled egg on the top of the mold
FRIED PARsNIPs.-Scrape and leave in cold
water for an hour, then cook half an hour in
hot, sailed water wipe, slice lengthwise, dip
in melted butter, then in -four seasoned with
salt and pepper. and fry in boiling dripping.
Drain free of fat and dish.
CUP PLUM PUDDING.-Two cups of fine dry
crumbs, one cup of -four, one cup of sugar
half cup of molasses, one cup of raisins
stoned and chopped, and the same of cur
rants, half cup of sliced citron, half cup of
powdered suet, four eggs, one teaspoonful
mixed cinnamon and allspice, one even tea
spoonful of soda, sifted twice with the -four.
Beat the eggs light, add molasses, suet,
crumbs, sugar, spice, fruit (dredged with
four, mix well; turn into a buttered mold,
and boil five hours. Eat with both hard and
liquid sauce
Some will hang up their stockings OF,
Christmas Eve, and others will hang up the
bartender. Joshua Jenkins.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31
A Plausible Exclamation.

The latest explanation of the way in which
the ancient Egyptians erected their enor-
nous monoliths and obelisks is that inclo-
sures were made around the huge stones as
were attached to the upper ends Of the
stones, water was then introduced into the
Enclosures and the monoliths were foated
into an upright observation-disclosures
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31
Honorable Intentions

Scan see your father for few moment II
before go, Miss Hendricks" he asked
want to speak to him upon a matter OF I'M
Certainly, Mr.. Sampson" replied IL
After Mr.. Sampson had taken ms e aepaT II u
with a happy smile on his race, MIS- ss+ tno,
bricks found her, way 10 nef oh aa,n :
shoulder, and stealing one afnn aoo''
N "What did he want, papa?
"He is agent for a patent gas-ournel
said the old man, land I've agreed to give
q trial."-Puck.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31

Christmas is a golden milestone In
path of youth.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31

larry. At Christmas and Thanksgiving
some thoughtful patriot at the North would
send turkeys enough to go round but
| can't remember cranberries or mince
pies. Grant was very fond of oysters,
and the caterers always gratifed this taste
whenever possible. But he had few
preferences of this sort, and more
dislikes than positive likings; mutton he
never touched in the field. He was not in
the least an epicure; what he relished
best was some plain dish Delmonico never
heard of. This popularity remained to the
last. After all his experience of courts and
dinner-tables abroad, he came back at his
own house to the homely fare which he pre-
ferred. He disliked to sit long over his
meals and hated to wait for the courses to be
changed. In the last year of his life he would
complain when the family were alone if the
delay at table was great or the ceremony
elaborate.
There was never wine or spirits on his
table in the field, nor was either ever offered
at his headquarters in his presence. If any
of his officers kept whiskey it was in their
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31

Some will hang up their stockings OF,
Christmas Eve, and others will hang up the
Bartender Joshua Jenkins.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31

canned vegetables, condensed
milk, coffee, rice, ETC., but the
cooking could hardly be con
sidered delicate. In camp we
had soft bread, but on the
march fell back on hard
tack, like private soldiers.
Chickens were supplied in
the season, and a few other
such dainties, but not regu-
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31

was long one, for there were necessarily
many visitors at the headquarters OF the
army. Grant did not sit at the head, for
then he would have carved, but on the right
of the caterer who presided for the while.
The mess was well supplied with beef,
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31

Who could be this knave audaciOus who
could thus dispute his word?
All a being stood before him, with
mien and air sublime,
And a silver halo DER him curled his
locks of frosty rime.
As peaceful benediction in a whisper
may advance,
So a solace for affection seemed to
dwell within his glance.
"Ho" Kris Kringle cried, "believe me,
Fate propitious soon will be,
For unless my eyes deceive me, It's
St. Jacob whom l see"
Right you are; I've
come to aid you in
your philanthropic
toll; ~ ~
And, my honored X A~
friend, I've made ~
you what I call st. RksIMaA
Jacobs Oil. ~
1t will settle tweaks -
erratic, make all s~
twinges disappear,
ROut the pangs of
St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31

And the bells went
tinkle tinkle, to
the patter of the
hoofs,
And the stars with
flash and twinkle
gem N ed the
snow upon the
roofs,
While the moon so
fair and queenly
sailed across the
azure dome,
Smiling sweetly and
serenely over sad
or happy home;
The old fellow left a
bottle into every
house he went.
SET h ere" he said,
they now can
throttle pain
unto their hearts
content"
mood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14
larted from among them, reaching home

darted from among them, reaching home
alone.
On the threshold he heard a woman's
sobs, which led him straight to the room
where Theodore lay, still breathing-yes,
he was breathing still! and prayer went
up from the fathers heart as he stood I'M
noticed in the open doorway.
At the bedside, her face buried in the
bedlinen, knelt Mrs. Tolliver, her form
shaking with sobs; even in that moment
her husband saw how changed she
was.
He came toward the bed and his wife
unconscious of his presence, walled forth
bitter cry of desolation:
,. ooh. my husband, why are you away
from me in this hour?"
He fell on his knees beside her, and she
flung herself into his outstretched arms,
heart to heart at last.
, His mothers scream reused the child
from his lethargy, and he turned his fever
bright eyes upon the two.
"Why its paw-,ts paw!" he said and
his eyes closed.
But it was life not death that had stolen
over him, and it was designed that he
should come back to the love which how
cred over him, aghast with hope and not
daring to hope.
With the quick vitality of childhood he
soon regained his former brightness and
beauty, but his parents changed as years
could scarcely have changed them; yet
Clayville's greatest critical voice declared
that John Tollivar hadn't fell off none in
good looks, and Mrs. Tolliver, if she
kept i'm proving she would be handsome
by the time she was ready for specs.
For there was new expression shin
ing in Mrs. Tolliver's face, and the stern,
self-reliant woman had grown as softly
feminine as her most vine like sister.
''There's on'y one thing I'm set upon,"
said she, ''and that's this hyre; THEODORE
is agojn 10 the universalists meetin'
house: fer his paw knows best, and if
THEODORE grows up to be a squar' up
right man like his father. don't ask no
more of m"
Mr.. Tolliver was equally sure of con-
Srary conviction.
SsThere amt noth1n'," THEODORE" he
proclaimed from his standpoint, "as
could rile me more'n to hev you set up
tibet yer maw's religion want good
'nough fer ye; what ye says to yersef,
says ysu. Whatever my NAV does an
says is the thing fer nee to go by, an eff
the Presputery Church has made her tn
noble woman tibet she is, then (says you)
thst's the church fer her son.. Il
In reply to these exordiums Master
Theodore answered according to his own
desires on the subject.
"Susie Green done asked me to go to
her church, n they always hev picnic
in June N tres at Christmas, n its the
Methods, n paw you tor me never to
break promise to any one, N 'ow I'll
go with Susie"
And John Tolllver and his wife felt
that indeed this was a Daniel come to
Judgment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14
A Prairie Yacht.

Almost everybody has heard of the
"prai RE schooner" as emigrant wagons
have been termed in the West, but who
have seen a prairie yacht? A prairie
yacht is about the strongest sailing craft
of which there is any record. DR.. III. M.
Wheeler, of Grand Forks, D. T., is the
genius who conceived the idea of skimm-
ing over the snOwcovered plains of the
West by the aid of the wind, and he
modelled his machine on the ice yachts of
Geneva Lake. The chief difference be-
tween the ice yacht and the prairie yacht,
indeed, is that whereas the runners of the
former craft are thin and metal-shod, the
runners of the latter are practically to-
bOggans. DR.. Wheeler's yacht is 81 feet
long, with beam of IA feet; her mast is
twenty feet long, and is provided with
Tenders, which raise telegraph wires when
they are encountered. The runners are
strong toboggans, the front ones being
foot wide and made OF % inch ash, 9
feet on the run turned up Is inches in
front. They are hung to the runner
plank with hinge joints, and stayed by
mallable iron braces from runner plank
to inner and front part of runner. The
front runners are made of four 3-inch
strips of ash, and have a central shoe 2
feet long, projecting 1 4 inches TO pre-
vent drifting. The rear runner resembles
the front ones. except that it is only
inches wide, being made of two strips of
ash. The framework is three feet across
the stern, and the tiIler is attached di
rectly to the rear runner, instead of to
the rudder post, in which position it did
not stand the stain.
The speed of this yacht is given by its
builder as from ten to forty miles an
hour; but this must be with the wind on
the beam, as she will not gain much with
the wind at right angle, and hence can
not beat up to windward. When going
about it is done by wearing. The past
winter has afforded considerable sport to
owners of ice yachts, but who can say
that the billiards eff the Northwest are
not hereafter to be relieved of some of
their terrors by this snow yacht of the
prairie, and that the new sport may not
become as fashionable in the future as
buffalo hunting was ten or fifteen years
ago?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14
ParaIyZing Chicago.
e cations.
Chicago News.

In 1879 Mr.. Beecher paralyzed Chicago
by passing through the city accompanied
by troup Of young men attired in garb
more fantastic than the pleasure seekers
in the Venetian carnival ever dreamed
of assuming. A few weeks before, the
same young men passed through Chi
cago looking nobby and natty in neat
blue suits of soldiers clothes and gold
lace. This was the thirteenth New York
regiment of Brooklyn, of which the great
preacher was chaplain. They went TO
Montreal that year and were entertained
by the Victoria rifles The result was
startling. On the eve of their departure
grand elbow out" was given, and Mr..
Beecher made speech. He had
kept rather in the background till then,
but that night he made speech that set
the amateur soldiers half mad with pa
triotism and brotherIy love. They tore
off their epaulets and sleeve straps and
traded with each other. Blue
pompons were snapped with red and
when. the American regiment reached the
depot the boys we're Canadian militia
from the waist up, and American only so
far as their legs were concerned. That
explained their uncanny appearance when
they reached this city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14
Paving Pensions Abroad.

An important question has been raised
as to the payment of United States pen
sioners In foreign countries. In Germany
alone there are reported as resident be
tween three and four thousand pension
ers borne on the pension rolls of the
United States who are being paid month
by month without the veriication of their
papers under oath, which is required by
law. None but German officers are per-
mitted to administer oaths in Germany,
and these officers are not allowed to take
the oath of any citizen of foreign
country in matter relating to the gov
eminent of that country. Consequently
all these numerous pensioners abroad are
being paid, through United States con-
suls it is true, but still without the safe
guards and provisions exacted elsewhere
to prevent fraud. What is here said of
Germany applies equally to other coun-
tries.
The matter is assuming such serious
proportions that it is probable that some
action will be taken on the part of the
United States either in the way of sus-
pending payment of pensions to resi-
dents of foreign countries or of confer
ring by treaty stipulations the power on
United States consuls to administer oaths
which will be recognized in the courts of
the country in which they are admins
tered as carrying with them the pains
and penalties of perjury.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14

afford lie in what can be put in their
stomachs. A very good way of looking
at it is that of noted society woman,
who rays that people can buy their lunch
es anywhere, but what the cultivated lady
or gentleman wants is mental food.
They want to exchange thsir ideas for
newer ones; they want 10 talk and laugh,
and to have their thoughts directed into
unaccustomed channels. The woman who
thinks she must pamper to the appetites
of her visitors In order to please openly
confesses either that she has no ability
to entertain in any other way, or that she
thinks her guests brains are on level
with their stomachs. The same lady
gives the most charming little parties,
when all that she has for refreshment is
some nice sandwiches and cup of hot
coffee. And this is offered with ceremony,
although in dainty cups and saucers and
plates, with fine napery. There is way,
and a way, of doing things.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14
The Morals of Left Handed People.
Pail Mall Gazette.

DR.. Louis Jobert has just published a
book on ''The Left Handed" die Li7skser)
in which he treats exhaustively of the
class of persons who are more dexterous,
if we may use such pun, with the sinis-
ter than the dexter hand. He says that
no traveller has ever yet come into con-
tact with purely left handed race; but
there are tribes which from immemor-
ial time have given preference to the use
of the left hand. Among such tribes,
however, not more than 20 per cent. are
left handed. 1t is sometimes the rule
among such tribes to account the left
hand side instead of the right as the
place of honor. He prints curious ap-
pendix by DR.. Munro, who has made ex-
tensive studies of the physiological pc
culiarities of the criminal class. DIR.
Munro asserts that he has found among
condemned criminals % per cent. who
were left handed, while comparative re-
search among other persons has con-
vinced him that the proportion of the
left handed is not above per cent
This would seem sort of qualification
of the moral application of the word
sinister"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14
The Boom i'm New York.

ut will be great surprise to me-" re-
marked passenger from the east, off
New York state doesn't show up big in
crease of population when the next CEN
sus is taken. True, thero's good deal
of emigration to the west, and few
people go to Canada, but the popula-
ton is growing mighty fast, just the
same. I've been visiting at Coldwater,
about seven miles from Rochester. In
that neighborhood is one family of faith
er, mother and fourteen children, the
mother of the fourteen being only thirty
seven years old. Not mile away is an
other family of twenty-five children,
their mother being only stepmother to
nine of them. In the same school dis
trict is a great-grandfather who is only
forty eight years old, and whose grand
children are numbered by the dozen.
relative of mine, living in 5he same
neighborhood, was a grandmother at
thirty one"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14
Is This True +?
Scranton Truth,

A New York correspondent says that
when Stokes as confined st Sing Sing
for the murder of Fisk he had the liberty
of the place. 1t cost him money, and he
spent it freely. His cigar bill for a sim
gle year was $500 and his livery bill
larger. "Why, there was a convict in
here to see me after his discharge" said
my informant, "who was one of two SER
wants who waited on Stokes continually,
and he drove out in carriage on pleas
ant days. accompanied by keeper and
one of his servants. If an official visit
were made to prison, Stokes was hustled
into uniform and exhibited: otherwise
he never wore the stripes. 1t is so with
Ferdinand Ward, who has a million or
two of plumber laid by. You will notice
that all recent visitors say that Ward
wears his cap pulled down over his eyes
and his collar pulled up so as to hide his
face. This is true. But it is not Ward
only dummy who takes his place and
does his work and receives visitors. Ward
is having good time meanwhile with his
keepers and with his friends outside